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The Battalion
Tuesday, September 3, 1991
Collector decides to keep Garbo's car
Busy bird breeders believe business booming
AUBURN, Ind. (AP) - A
Houston car collector decided to
keep a 1933 Duesenberg J Victoria
once owned by Greta Garbo rather
than accept $2.8 million for it.
Jerry Moore, who last week,
said the car was worth $3.5 mil
lion, rejected the bid at the
Auburn '91 Collector Car Auction
and Show at Kruse International
Auction Park on Sunday.
“You've heard about big ice
cream cones you couldn't have.
Well, that's the biggest ice cream
cone I've ever seen, and I'm going
to keep it/' said Moore, a Houston
shopping center magnate who
owns 37 Duesenbergs. “It's my fa
vorite. ... But anything's for sale
for a profit."
The cranberry-colored auto
mobile's body kept Garbo hidden
from view. Its rear-seat section in
cluded seven concealed compart
ments for Garbo to secure her jew
elry.
Officials at Kruse International
said Moore bought the actress's
former Duesenberg for $1.4 mil
lion on Aug. 4, 1987. The largest
bid Sunday was $2.8 million, of
fered by Dalton, Ga., carpet sales
man Ed Weaver.
Kruse conducts the annual
classic car auction every Labor
Day weekend.
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five years ago. Lucky Worming-
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parrot. Today, the Wormingtons
have more than 300 birds and are
exotic bird breeders for area bird
lovers.
They turned their passion for
birds into a thriving business.
“This grew by chance," Mrs.
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She and her husband/David,
who has always been a bird lover,
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She said her love for birds has
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“ Once we got Bubba, things
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Wormington said his wife is
responsible for the care of the
birds, and he maintains the three
large cages.
The couple said exotic bird
breeding is not an easy job, and
right now they are on the heels of
spring — the peak season for new
eggs-
While the baby birds are
hatching, Mrs. Wormington has to
feed them a formula hourly
around the clock. She said this
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til they are at least 2 months old.
Wormington said they breed
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He warned, however, that
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birds or birds that were imported.
He said often these, birds are
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Wormington said a lot of times
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King Missile's dark
humor wears thin
Continued from page 7
don't show you the kind of hu
mor King Missile enjoys, imag
ine "The Story of Willy" as a
Monty Python skit. It's the last
day of planet Earth and Willy
visits his friend Bob who he
finds dead from a suicide. No
problem. He could stay and
drink all of Bob's beer, but he
decides to return later and take
Bob's wife out dancing. After
all, the end of the world is kind
of a special event. Stepping out
the door, Willy is hit by a run
away steamroller. Sorry Willy.
If all this sounds more than
a little dark, it is. But Hall's
deadpan delivery gives his sub
ject matter the same twisted hu
mor that wor’cs for the Python
troupe or filmmaker David
Lynch. The only problem is that
the humor totally relies on Hall
and he's at his best on only
about 50% of the album. The
rest of the album, especially on
songs such as "Life " and "Scot
land" are too self conscious for
their own good, and Hall comes
off as more annoying than fun-
ny.
Unfortunately for the rest of
the band, the other bad mo
ments come when King Missile
try to write actual songs. The
music of King Missile is of the
plodding 70s metal variety and
originality is a bit lacking. This
is one album to be listened to
for lyrics only. The music at its
best only allows the words to
flow.
And finally. King Missile
shares a fault of most comedy
acts or albums. The good jokes
are hysterical at first, pretty fun
ny the next couple of times, and
give a few chuckles after that.
By the time you play this al
bum over and over, however,
the humor begins to spoil. My
advice is to buy the cassette, lis
ten to the thing a few times, and
then give the tape to a friend be
fore the jokes get old. You too
can help to make a brighter (or,
in this case maybe darker)
world.
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this song is a little more gutsy
than the others - and it features
a more rocking edge as far as
the music goes.
The music on Fear is a little
more rocking all around - the
close of "Hold Her Down"
drives Todd Nichols guitars
over the edge, and the slow
acoustic parts of "Pray Your
Gods" are captivating.
The best song musically
speaking, though, is without
question "Butterflies" - the off
beat rhythm of the tune plus
the sampled, speaking vocal of
Laurel Franklin put the song in
a class by itself. Phillips' lyrics
are strangely simple, yet quite
obscure, and the harmony parts
in the chorus are just plain cool.
Very definitely the best tune
this band has come up with.
And that's saying a lot. The
song's don't quit there. "Before
You Were Born" is a song of
hope and inspiration for a
friend who has grown up in a
single family; Nichols brings
out the hurt and the anger felt,
especially in the second verse,
an empassioned "goddamn-
ing" of the people to blame.
I was scared about this
record before it came out. I like
Toad's first two attempts so
much, I figured Fear would be a
let down. Far from it - there's
not a song on it I don't like.
"Nightengale Song," "Is It For
Me," "In My Ear" and "Some
thing to Say" all deserve men
tioning. Fear closes with "I Will
Not Take These Things For
Granted," a perfect farewell
from the sad but hopeful mes
sage the album conveys.
tion birds. They say a common
problem among bird owners is
poor diet.
Mrs. Wormington said most
people think birds just eat bird
seed.
She said birdseed alone lacks
the vitamins the birds need. She
recommends roughage or even
meats for birds.
Although the life expectancy
of the exotic birds the couple
breeds is 60 years, many only live
for five years because of poor diet.
The Wormingtons said they
are probably largest supplier of
exotic birds in the area, and busi
ness is good.
They said they get the bulk of
their business from word-of-
mouth.
"Our customers are usually
someone who's bought a pet from
us," Mrs. Wormington said.
Wormington said the prices of
their birds start as low as $150 for
a Conurn-Maroon Bellied and go
as high as $1,500 for Moluccans,
which retail in stores for about
$2,500.
Wormington said there will be
an eventual termination of the im
portation of exotic birds that will
drive prices up. He expects a
change in the bird business within
a year.
While the birds keep the
Wormingtons busy, Mrs. Worm-
ington said it is a labor of love.
Protesters
demonstrate
at MDA
fundraiser
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Comedi
an Jerry Lewis joined celebrities
and muscular dystrophy victims
in coaxing tens of millions of dol
lars out of viewers in his 26th an
nual Labor Day telethon.
The show sought to surpass
last year's record tote of
$44,172,186.
The telethon drew a handful of
pickets in Las Vegas and Los An
geles, but Lewis won accolades
from those appearing on the annu
al show.
Actor Jameson Parker fought
back tears as his daughter, 6-year-
old Katherine, who suffers from a
sometimes tatal form of muscular
dystrophy, told Lewis: "Thank
you for letting me smile."
Parker, star of the old CBS tele
vision series, "Simon and Simon,"
said that even before learning his
daughter had the disease he fre
quently appeared at Muscular
Dystrophy Association events.
Parker said he was grieving in
his kitchen one night shortly after
he learned of his daughter's illness
when Lewis called to offer sympa
thy and support.
"He's given hope to millions
of people who had no hope,"
Parker said.
Singer Maureen McGovern,
who has participated in the
telethon and worked with MDA
for a dozen years, said her niece
contracted a neuromuscular dis
ease the previous year.
"If you think muscular dystro
phy can't strike your family, think
again," she said. "I never dreamed
I would be thanking MDA for
helping my family."
Two former MDA poster chil
dren, Gris Matthews and Mike
Ervin, recently announced a na
tional campaign to boycott the
telethon until Lewis is removed as
host and the appeal is changed.
Matthews has said they want to
change the telethon "but not dis
courage donations to MDA."
Six protesters, including one
young man in a wheelchair,
demonstrated outside when the
show opened at the Sahara Hotel
in Las Vegas. And in Los Angeles,
seven demonstrators showed up
in wheelchairs at a local telethon
headquarters.
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